In the champions cup, Global advanced by default with a 3-0 win against Highlands Park B, while Drunken Pandas surprised Atletico with a 2-1 win. The two teams will play at Global for a place in the final.

In the other side of the draw, Happy Deals beat Florida 5-2 and will face at home Warrios 1, who won 3-1 against Old Parks.

In the challengers cup, Panorama will face Highlands Park A after winning 7-1 against Old Parks (Highlands Park A advanced due to a forfeit against GPMI). In the other quarter finals, both division 2 teams beat their division 1 opponent, with Randburg now facing a home semifinal against a red hot Randfontein (winners of the last 8 games) after beating 3-1 Crusaders and 4-2 Lenasia.

With the leagues done and dusted, it’s now time to focus on the Champions and Challengers Cups.

The first preliminary round (played only in the Challengers Cup) saw Sandton Warriors lose to Randfontein 2-0. Randfontein advances and will play Lenasia in the next round

With Division 1 done and dusted, it was time for the exciting finish of Division 2:

Randfontein got automatically promoted with a 7-0 win away aty GPMI, while Florida lost at home to Randburg. In the other game, Sandton Warriors ended on a high with a 5-0 win against champions Highlands Park B.

With only one game left there is still a cahnce for Old Parks to finish 3rd and leap frog Florida for the last promotion chance.

In Division 1, Warriors sealed their title with a 6-4 win away to Lenasia.

Globsal maintained their second spot with a 6-2 win against Crusaders, while Highlands Park, thanks for a 3-1 win against Panorama, consolidated the 3rd position.

Happy Deals and Atletico ended 3-3.

While Warriors are now champions, and Crusaders and Panorama are relegated, Happy Deals will play the play-off against the 3rd classified in Division 2

In Division 2, Randfontein beat Sandton Warriors 8-2 to move in second place, while Florida dropped points in a 2-2 draw with Highlands Park B, the winners of the league.

Old Parks 2 managed to win at Randburg 3-2 while GPMI beat Drunken Pandas 4-2

In Division 1, Warriors needs just 1 point from 2 games to win the league, after beating Highlands Park 3-2.

By winning 4-3 against Atletico, Lenasia managed to pull themselves out of relegation zone and sit comfortable in 5th place and needs just 1 point to avoid the playout.

Panorama (1-2 vs Global) and Crusaders have been relegated.

In Division 2, Highlands Park B have been officialy promoted thanks to a 3-0 away win at Old Parks.

Randfontein continued their good moment of form by beating Florida 6-2, while Old Parks bounced back with a 1-0 win against Drunken Pandas.

With few games left, there are still 5 teams fighting for a chance of promotion: Flordia (25, 13 games), Old Parks (24, 15 games), Randfontein (23, 14 games), Drunken Pandas (22, 15 games) and Randburg AFC (21, 14 games).

In the top of the log clash, Warrios beat Global 6-2, probably sealing the title.

At the bottom, Panorama lost 3-0 to Lenasia, while Crusaders lost 1-3 to Atletico.

Highlands beat Happy Deals 4-1 in the other game

In Division 2 , with Highlands resting, Florida won against Warriors to confirm their second place. Drunken Pandas lost to Randburg 1-6 and GPMI pulled themselves out of the last position with a 3-2 win against Old Parks 1.

In the other game, Old Parks 2 lost 1-5 to Randfontein, who are now fighting with 4 other teams in 2 points for the 3rd place for the promotion playoff

In division 1, Global United (3-1 vs Atletico) and Warriors 1 (4-1 vs Happy Deals) are now the two team fighting for the championship, with Atletico 10 points behind and almost mathematically out of contention.

At the bottom, Panorama and Crusaders finished the game with a 2-2 draw that didn’t do much for their 2 bottom spots.

In Division 2, Highlands Park B took a decisive step towards an automatic promotion thanks to a 10-3 win against Drunken Pandas. Florida Albion jumped to second with a 6-0 win away at GPMI. In the other games Randburg won against Old Parks 2-1 and Sandton Warriors beat Old Parks 2 6-1

In division 1, Lenasia jumped two places to 3rd from the bottom thanks to a 4-3 win against Crusaders (double points game), While global closed on Warriors 1 with a 3-2 win against Happy deals. In the other game, Joburg Atletico lost 7-2 against Highlands.

In division 2, Highlands Park B won against Old Park and stayed on top, opening up a 4 points gap thanks to Happy Deals losing 3-0 againsg Randfointein. In the other game Randburg won 5-2 against GPMI

In Division 1, Warriors took a decisive step towards the championship by winning at Atletico 3-2 and opening a 6 points margin with 1 game more. Global closed on Atletico by winning 5-3 vs Lenasia.

Crusaders and Panorama remained at the bottom withe Lenasia after losing 6-2 to Highlands and 4-3 to Happy Deals.

In Division 2, four teams are close to each other at the top due to Highlands losing at thome to Randburg 4-3.

Other results:

Old Park 1 – Randfontein 2-4

Drunken Pandas – Warriors 2-1

The exciting cup draw took place tonight in the presence of the 4 managers that joined us on Zoom.

Champions cup: (the “champions league” cup)

First round (21.09)

Q1: Drunken Pandas vs Joburg Atletico at Discovery
Q2: Global United vs Highlands Park B at Panorama
Q3: Florida Albion vs Happy Deals at Florida’s home grounds
Q4: Warriors 1 vs Old Parks at Discovery

Semifinals: (28.09)

Winner Q1 vs Winner Q2, Q2 to play at home (so winner Global vs Highlands)
Winner Q3 vs Winner Q4, Q3 to play at home (so winner Florida vs Happy Deals)

Final: 05.10 at Panorama

Challengers Cup: (the “europa league” cup)

Preliminary Round (19.09)

Sandton Warriors vs Randfontein at Discovery

First round: (21.09)

Q1: Old Parks 2 vs Panorama at Old Parks
Q2: GPMI Vets vs Highlands Park A at GPMI’s home grounds
Q3: Crusaders vs Randburg at Crusaders; home grounds
Q4: Lenasia vs winner of Sandton Warrios v Randontein at Lenasia’s home grounds

Semifinals: (28.09)

Winner Q1 vs Winner Q2 , Q1 to play at home (so winner Old Parks 2 vs Panorama)
Winner Q3 vs Winner Q4 , Q3 to play at home (so winner Crusaders vs Randburg)

Final: 05.10 at Panorama

Rules:

80 minutes game, no extra time, straight to penalties
League rules for yellow cards: 10 minutes sin-bin (please always discuss with the referee before hand that we are using sin-bins in case they forgot!). Red cards are only used in extreme cases and they need to be discussed by the committee (with a risk of the team getting penalized), honestly I hope sin bins are enough to cool players off.

NO UNDER 35. Bring your IDs or a copy of the IDs. If a team gets caught with under 35 players will be penalised and eventually expelled from the league (and you won’t be able to ask for your money back).
In the cup, before the game, any team can ask players of the opposite team to show proof of age. _If no ID is provided (or if the player is under 35), then the player cannot play that night and for the rest of the season. Guys, don’t cheat. If some of your guys are under 35, do not let them play, as simple as that.

Referees: currently it’s still up to the home team to provide and pay for fields and referees (apart from the final), hence the home/away draw that followed the main draw. If we can somehow manage to provide neutral referees for the 1st round and semifinals, we will let everyone know. But please understand that is quite difficult to convince referees to drive far away from their comfort areas (which means someone needs to pay for transportation).

If one of the 4 teams in the finals are also involved in the play-out for promotion / relegation (so currently would be Crusaders and Drunken Pandas , 3rd from the bottom Div 1 and 3rd from the top Div 2), then the playout gets played the 12th of October. If not it gets played at Panorama the same night of the other finals (05.10).

This means that the summer league will officially start the 19th of October, which will give us a week to prepare for the new season (calendars etc..).

All the finals are played at the same venue (Panorama has generator so load shedding won’t be a problem) with the cup lifting ceremony happening as soon as the finals are over.